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One Plus One Equals Two (2006)

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76 points lemper | 1 comments | 22 Oct 24 08:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source
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cubefox ◴[22 Oct 24 14:58 UTC] No.41914942[source]▶
Oh, so the λ in lambda calculus was just a poor man's circumflex.

Unrelated, but why doesn't Hacker News have support for latex? And markdown, for that matter?

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gabrielsroka ◴[22 Oct 24 15:26 UTC] No.41915234[source]▶
It supports https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
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1. cubefox ◴[22 Oct 24 16:13 UTC] No.41915802[source]▶
That's only very limited support of the most basic forms of formatting. It's the year 2024, and Hacker News can't do better? Even the blog post above, from 2006, uses a LaTeX plugin.